Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • I will still take this debate, but not interwoven with twitter-spam. (a) g measu

    I will still take this debate, but not interwoven with twitter-spam. (a) g measures what we attempt to measure (b) chance of success corresponds to a distribution of traits, plus the utility of those traits, in service of the population under the bell curve within 1 SD.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-27 20:26:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1078386743022444545

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856


    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    “IQ” THREAD

    “IQ” measures an inferior form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects, meant to select paper shufflers, obedient IYIs.

    1- When someone asks you a question in REAL LIFE, you focus first on “WHY is he asking me that?”, which slows down. (Fat Tony vs Dr John)

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856

  • RE: Nassim Nicholas Taleb ON HIS IQ RANT I will still take this debate, but not

    RE: Nassim Nicholas Taleb ON HIS IQ RANT

    I will still take this debate, but not interwoven with twitter-spam. (a) g measures what we attempt to measure (b) chance of success corresponds to a distribution of traits, plus the utility of those traits, in service of the population under the bell curve within 1 SD.

    Those of us with exceptional abilities favor working with our region of the bell curve – puzzles – that are of INDIRECT value rather than DIRECT value. WE HAVE KNOWN THIS FOR DECADES.

    Lastly, we go to university etc to avoid the marketplace (‘work’). This is the value of higher education: to provide a non-market means of identifying selection. In this sense your criticism is correct. In the sense that you’re criticizing IQ measurements, you’re WRONG …PERIOD.

    All of this is OLD NEWS. If you want to encourage people to prosper by pairing their skills to those necessary to serve the market that they understand, then yes. If you mean very bright people are fooled by sophism, innumeracy, pseudoscience – then yes.

    But likewise, just as it has taken you many years to migrate from the positivist search for mathematical discovery of units of informational prediction, to the demand for warranty of due diligence (falsification), you too are vulnerable to innumeracy, pseudoscience, ‘literature’.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-27 15:37:00 UTC

  • I’ll take this debate @nntaleb because you have a valid point that you are makin

    I’ll take this debate @nntaleb because you have a valid point that you are making so badly that any value is obscured.
    ->Single personality trait, vs Full Suite of Personality Traits. And IQ stats reflect (as you suggest) college filtering only- not demonstrated intelligence.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-24 22:18:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1077327582415278080

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856


    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    “IQ” THREAD

    “IQ” measures an inferior form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects, meant to select paper shufflers, obedient IYIs.

    1- When someone asks you a question in REAL LIFE, you focus first on “WHY is he asking me that?”, which slows down. (Fat Tony vs Dr John)

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856

  • Nassim, You know, every now and then you stumble in public. This is one of them.

    Nassim, You know, every now and then you stumble in public. This is one of them. You are distinguishing between General Intelligence (a single personality trait) and Demonstrated intelligence (entire suite of personality traits). DO NOT MAKE THE ERROR YOU CHASTISE OTHERS FOR.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-24 22:14:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1077326761506033664

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856


    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    “IQ” THREAD

    “IQ” measures an inferior form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects, meant to select paper shufflers, obedient IYIs.

    1- When someone asks you a question in REAL LIFE, you focus first on “WHY is he asking me that?”, which slows down. (Fat Tony vs Dr John)

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856

  • Untitled

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brains-autopilot-mechanism-steers-consciousness/

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-24 17:54:00 UTC

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF LEFTISM by Rosenborg Predmetsky Cultural

    THE PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF LEFTISM

    by Rosenborg Predmetsky

    Cultural Marxists are all structural and no agency (perhaps a good propertarian description of “all talk and no walk”). I find it very telling that the advocates of structuralism and post-structuralism tended to be utterly degenerate and depraved idiots — the most obvious examples are Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan.

    Both purely r-selected and also totally obsessed with the idea that humans in general lack agency and that human subjectivity is nothing but a function of some antecedent (linguistic or social) structure. They are projecting their own constitutional, biological lack of agency onto humanity at large. When a post-structuralist says “humans lack agency,” I say “speak for yourself, hypo-frontal-cortical wojack!”

    I see cultural Marxists as high openness to experience with its attendant divergent thinking + dopaminergic sensation seeking + Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS, intense negative effect), and so they are driven by their passions like a kite in a hurricane, lacking anything like authentic agency, and they just project their own pathology onto the rest of humanity.

    Sensation seeking + intense negative affect + high verbal IQ = quasi-bonobo degenerate reader of Derrida / Foucault. Hyper-feminine, articulate but garrulous, schizophrenia-spectrum, borderline personality with unstable sense of self (which they project onto others), borderline psychotic, highly diffuse and chaotic thought patterns, histrionic, a desire to be seen and desired rather than a desire to create and/or conquer through brilliance or authentic power wrought of discipline.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-23 13:13:00 UTC

  • Nice Parsimony: —” CONSCIOUSNESS: Narratives are a social construct produced b

    Nice Parsimony:

    —” CONSCIOUSNESS: Narratives are a social construct produced by consciousness (itself a constant stream of a personal narrative) evolved by event-driven memory in spacetime to optimize decision-making in a socio-cooperative hierarchy.”— Nick’s Reason


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-22 13:27:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076469294177939457

  • “Declawed cats are usually like disarmed humans, more prone to being weasley, ti

    —“Declawed cats are usually like disarmed humans, more prone to being weasley, timid, violent and vicious.”—Anne Summers

    This is not so much a statement about cats, as about humans. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-22 13:26:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076469017173467136

  • Nice Parsimony: —” CONSCIOUSNESS: Narratives are a social construct produced b

    Nice Parsimony:

    —” CONSCIOUSNESS: Narratives are a social construct produced by consciousness (itself a constant stream of a personal narrative) evolved by event-driven memory in spacetime to optimize decision-making in a socio-cooperative hierarchy.”— Nick’s Reason


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-22 08:27:00 UTC

  • “Declawed cats are usually like disarmed humans, more prone to being weasley, ti

    —“Declawed cats are usually like disarmed humans, more prone to being weasley, timid, violent and vicious.”—Anne Summers

    This is not so much a statement about cats, as about humans. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-22 08:26:00 UTC